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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

VINSLOW F. SAMPSON, OF GOFFSTOYN, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO THE SAMPSON AUTOMATIC HEEL BURNISHING MA- CHINE COMPANY,OF MANCHESTER, NEYV HAMPSHIRE.

HEEL-BURNISHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,388, dated January6, 1891.

i Application filed March Z4, 1890. Serial No. 345,178. (No model.)

To all whom, if may conceive:

Be it known that LWINSLOW F. SAMPsoN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of the town of Goffstown, in the county ofHillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in I'leel-Burnishing Machines, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exa-ct description.

The improvements of this invention are particularly adapted toheel-burnishing machines, such as described in my application forLetters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 320,524.

The improvements, in substance, consist, first, of a jack for securing aboot or shoe with its heel edge exposed and the inner surface of itssole against a rest therefor at one end of a reciprocatingly-rotated orotherwise suitablyoperated shaft, composed of a toggle-lever, which byone of its arms is jointed on said shaft and has a rest for thetreading-face of the heel that is opposite to the heel-rest of saidshaft, and is swiveled on the toggle-lever at the joint of its arms, incombination with a spring which is held on said shaft and at rest andpressing on the toggle-lever at the outer side of its joint and alsopreferably with a handle, which is hinged to the arm of the toggle-leveropposite to that jointed to said shaft, and is adapted to be swunginward toward the shaft and there held against accidental movement andoutward from the shaft and to be brought to an abutment on thetoggle-lever and all otherwise in its outer position to serve as ahandle through which to operate the toggle-lever, and thereby to placeits swiveled rest against or to remove it from contact with thetreading-face of the heel, in the first instance fastening and holdingthe boot or shoe by its heel on the shaft, and in the second instancereleasing it for its removal and the placing and holding of another;second, of an arm or frame carrying the burnisher, which is constructedand arranged and operated to move the burnisher over the edge of theboot or shoe, suitably located in the machine therefor, and from thetreading-face of the heel to the upper, and

vice versa, and to secure elastic pressure of 5o the burnisher on theedge of the heel in its movement, as aforesaid, and which istransversely vertically divided in a parallel line with that of the heelinto two parts, connected together by a swivel-joint, and otherwiseadapted the part carrying the burnisher to swing on the other part, inone direction against and in the other direction by the tension of aspring suitably applied to the two parts therefor; third, of mechanismcomposed, 6o in substance, of a horizontal shaft adapted to be rocked toand fro in suitable stationary bearings, a vertical ratchet-wheel andconcentric gear-wheel held on it, and both adapted to rotate as one onsaid rocker-shaft, a vertical arm,which is fulcru med and thus isadapted to swing on said shaft, and which carries a pawlthat in onedirection of the swing of the arm and against the tension of a springengages and thereby turns said ratchet and 7o gear-wheel, and in theother direction of the swing of the arm and by the reaction of saidspring passes freely over and without effect on said ratchet-wheel, anarm held on said rocker-shaft and in one direction of the rock v7 5 ofthe shaft to abut against and thereby to swing said arm-carrying pawl ina direction to secure, by its pawl, a rotation of said ratchet andgear-wheel on said shaft, in combination with mechanism which isconstructed and ar- 8o ranged and is in suitable connection with saidrotating gear-wheel, and a frame or arm carrying a burnisher to movesaid burnisher forward and backward across the edge of a heel suitablypresented and held' to it and 8: from the treading-face of the heel tothe upu 4per of the boot or shoe; Ifourth, of a horizon-V talrocker-shaft held on suitable stationary bearings, arms which are fixedand radially project. in opposite directions from said shaft, 9o andeach at its outer end is provided with an abutment, both projectedtoward each other, in combination with a frame or arm, which is suitablysupported and carries a` burnisher held on it, and has a pulleywheel forrotating the burnisher', two drivingpulley wheels held and each capableof separate and independent rotation on said arm or frame, a belt todrive said driving-pulley wheels and the burnisher, and a belt-shipperdevice which isheld on and is arranged to be moved on saidburnisher-earrying frame and has a block presenting two abutment faces,one on opposite sides thereof and both in the vertical plane of andbetween said abutmen ts of said rocker-shaft and to be worked first byone and then by the other of said shaft-abutments, and thereby to securea movement of said belt-shipper in opposite directions on saidburnisher-earrying frame or arm, and a placing of said driving-belt inoperative position on either one or the other of said pulley-wheels,driven in opposite directions and a rotation ofthe burnisher in eitherone or the other direction, as the case may be.

In addition to the above, the invention consists of other improvementsin detail hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, a machine forburnishing the heels of boots or shoes and of the class to which theimprovements of this invention are particularly applicable isillustrated.

Figure l is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Figs. 2 and 2" aresectional views in detail, as will hereinafter appear. Fig. 3 `is an endelevation of the left-hand side of the machine. Fig. i is a plan view indetail and enlarged of the mechanism or jack (turned over) to secure aboot or shoe in position in the machinefor burnishing its heel.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation in detail and enlarged of the jack mechanismin its proper position. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view in detailand enlarged, line ti 6, Fig. l. Fig. 7 is a plan view in detail,enlarged, and detached of the under side of the frame which carries theburnisher-tool, all as hereinafter appears. Fig. Sis an elevation of apart of the mechanism of Fig. 7, and detached therefrom.

In the drawings, A represents the horizontal bed of the machine,supported on legs Al" at each corner, two partially shown, or in anyother suitable manner.

B is the driving-shaft. This shaft is horizontal, andit is underthe rearportion, and it is supported and turns in suitable fixed dependingbearing-blocks A2 A2 of the bed A.

13 B2 are fixed and loose pulley-wheels held on the shaft B at its endprojecting beyond the right hand of the bed, and B3 is a vertical piniongear-wheel xed on the projecting end portion of the shaft which isopposite to the pulley B. The pinion B3 is at the rear and meshes avertical gear-wheel B", held and turning on a fixed horizontal stud B5of the block A20 at the left hand of the bed. The gear wheel B* has aradial slot B, at which, by headed screw-bolt and screw-nut BT,pivot-connection is made of one end of a pitman-rod Bl", which at itsother end is pivoted and connected to the lower end of a vertical armB", intermediately fulcrumed and hung on a fixed horizontal stud An of apost A4 at the front side and left hand of the bed, and at its upper endportion it has a segmental gear B1", concentric with the axis of stud A.

C is a vertical pinion gear-wheel at upper si'de of and meshingsegmental gear Bw and held on the left-hand end portion of a horizontalshaft C2, that. turns in bearings of the upper end of a post A* andextends therefrom, and its end portion C3 at the right hand of the bed Ais enlarged and presents an end and vertical flat face C4 in a planecrossing the axial line of the shaft C2 and on this face C the boot orshoe (not shown) the heel of which is to be burnished is secured by ajack mechanism, hereinafter described, and which constitutes one featureof this invention. 'lhe axis of shaft (L2 is in the vertical plane ofthe axis of ful'crum-stud A and pivotal connection of lever-arm ll andpitman-rod B8 when said arm and rod are in the position shown in Fig. l.

All parts of the jack mechanism are carried by and they rotate in commonwith the shaft 2, and the mechanism consists of an arm Cf, atoggle-lever C"l C1, a bent spring C11, and, preferably, a handle C2 forthe toggle-lever for convenience of working it to place the jack out ofits holding position against the treading-face of the boot or shoe,otherwise at the inner side of the sole at its heel portion at restagainst the heel-face Gl of the shaft C2, upon and over which the boot0r shoe is entered. The several parts referred to are in a commonhorizontal plane below the shaft (J2, and the arm (l8 is rigidly7 butadjustably held on and projects angularly from and toward ltheheel-holding face CL of said shaft, and at its outer end it is pivotedor hinged to the outer end of one arm C9 of the toggle-lever CJ C1", thepintle-joint C1 of which is in a vertical plane forward of thelicei-face (Ll of the shaft C2, and its arm C10 at its outer end is infront of the shaft C2. The pintle of thepintlejoint C13 of thetoggle-lever extends upward and into a position opposite to theheel-face Cl ofthe shaft Cwhere it has a flat face C to bearonthetreading-faceoftheheelofabootorshoe, otherwise entered onto theshaft and resting at the inner heel portion of the sole against theheel-face of said shaft C2, all as described. The bent spring C11 ismade of a strip of heavy sheet metal. This spring at one end is rigidlyheld on and extends from the rear side of the shaft (l2 in a curvilineardirection around the outside of both arms of the toggie-lever, and itsouter free end rests upon the toggle-lever joint C13, all so as to exertpressure on the'toggle-lever and with its arms straightened out to pressthereon and therethrough, and thus to firmly confine a heel to and uponthe heel-face C4 of the shaft C2.

The handle Cl2 for the toggle-lever is hung by a butt-hinge CH on theouter end of the arm C10 of the toggle-lever, so as to be swung andplaced either inward toward the shaft C2 or outward and in extension ofsaid arm C1 of the toggle-lever and placed inward. It is convenientlystowed away, 'as it were, and there retained against accidentaldisplacement by a bent spring C16, attached to arm C10 and arranged tobear on the butt-hinge of the handle and placed outward against the endof the toggle-arm C10. It serves as a rest against which the operatorcan press his leg, and thereby work the toggle-lever in a directionagainst its bent spring C11 to release the jack from its hold on andconfinement of the boot or shoe at its heel against the heel-face C1 ofthe shaft C2 when desired to remove the boot or shoe and replace it withanother.

The boot or shoe jacked as explained has the edge of its heel which isto be burnished exposed at all parts and from one end of the breast ofthe heel to the other thereof and from the treading-face of the heel tothe upper of the boot or shoe.

Again, the boot or shoe jacked, as described, is reciprocated in acircle about the axis of the shaft C2 by the action of the driving-shaft 3, pitman-rod B8, arm B11, and its segmental gear B111 and pinion-gearC on the shaft C2, it being understood that the drivin g-shaftis undercontinuous rotation. By adjusting the pivot-connection of pitman-rod B2with the driving gear-wheel B1 at a greater or less distance from thecenter of rotation of said wheel, the length of the arc of reciprocationof boot or shoe heel can be made more or less, as may be required ordesired, to suit heels of greater or less length of edge to beburnished.

C17 is an arc-shaped shield held on the post A1 and in position to coverand guard the pinion and segmental gear-wheels C B10 at and around theirupper portions.

D2 is a horizontal shaft carrying the burnisher D. (Shown in dottedlines, Fig. 1.) The burnisher D is of circular shape with a convex orrounded edge, and is confined on and between collars D10 at one endportion of the shaft, and all so that the burnisher-wheel is in thevertical plane of the heel of the boot or shoe jacked on the shaft C2,and the axis of the burnisher-shaft D2 is in a vertical plane coincidentwith that of said shaft C2, and the shaft D2 extends toward the righthand of the machine. The burnisher-shaft at its opposite end portionsturns in bearings D5 of one end of a frame or arm D1 D11, which isin twotransverse sections or parts butted end to end and jointed by aswivel-pin D12, and also arranged and applied together, as hereinafterexplained, and the part D1 at its end opposite to that swiveled to partD11is of fork shape, and is fastened to a horizontal bar or rod D,suspended at its opposite endl portions and extending across and betweenand free to be moved, as hereinafter appears, lengthwise, and to rotatein bearings at the upper ends of upright forked arms A5 of a fixed postA7 at the rear portion of the machine-bed A. The vertical plane of theaxis of the rod D6 is parallel to the vertical plane of that of theshaft C2, having the boot or shoe jacked to it, as stated, and also ofthat of the shaft D2, carrying the burnisher D.

The burnisher D in operation is at the upper side of the boot or shoeheel, jacked and reciprocated as described. The carrier or frame D1 D11for the burnisher D, with the burnisher out. of operative position,inolines more or less upward from its end hung on the rod D5.

M is a lever which extends more or less horizontally from front to rear,and at the front of the machine has a handle M2, at the rear acounterbalancing-weight M1, and intermediate of its ends it is hung on afulcrum M1 of the post A1, supporting, as explained,the'burnisher-carrier D1 D11.

M5 is a verticalV spiral spring, at its lower end hung on thehandle-lever M and at its upper end on the front swiveled part D11 ofthe burnisher-carrier D1 D11, and by pressing this lever downward saidcarrier is lowered and the burnisher is placed in operative position onthe heel edge of the jacked boot or shoe, and is there held (see Fig.25) by means of side pin MG at the front end portion of the handle-leverM, then in engagement with a hook-shaped end M7 of a vertical arm M8,rigidly held on one end of ahorizontal rod M9, which is contained andturns in a horizontal tubular bearing M10, secured to the bed A, Fig.2b, and at its opposite end has a rigidlyattached andupwardly-projecting arm M11, on which is hung one end of a spiral springM12, that at its opposite end is hung on a stationary post M15, and allso that the tension of the spiral spring M12, working on the arm M11 andthence through the shaft M9 and its catch-hook M7, holds said catch inengagement with the pin MG of the handle-lever M until otherwise it isreleased of engagement in the operation of the machine, as willhereinafter appear. The spiral spring M5 allows the burnisher to yieldupwardly and downwardly, so that the burnisher can conform to thevarying distances of the heel edge from the axis of its oscillatingrotation; and again as the part D11 of the burnisher-carrier D1 D11, andto which said spring M5 is hung and on which it acts, is swiveled on thepart D1, as described, the burnisher can further automatically adjustitself to the heel edge, for the reason that the burnisher is thus madecapable of a rocking movement on the heeledge, secured from the tensionof said spring, limited, however, in an upward direction by anadjustable stop-pin M11, held on the part D1 and bearing on the upperface of the part D11 of the burnisher-carrier and at the side IOO IIO

of the axis of the swivel-connection of said parts opposite to that atwhich said spring is hung.

M15 is an upright rod,-which is secured to the handle-lever M,preferably, so as to be vertically adjustable thereon, and extendsupward toward and against the under side of the part D1 of theburnishercarrier D1 D11, and downward loosely through and below the bedA, where it is provided with a stop-block M16, preferably adjustable onit. This rod M15 moves up and down with the handle-lever M, and in theoperation of the machine its upper end limits the downward movement ofthe burnisher-carrier D1 D11, as also of the burnisher in relation tothe heel edge being burnished, and its stop-block M1G by abutmentagainst the underside of the bed A limits the upward movement of thehandle-lever M, and also the burnisher-carrier D1 D11, when theholding-catch Mz MS is freed from the pin M6 of the handle-lever, aswill hereinafter appear and be explained in the operation of themachine.

M111 M11 is a vertical bell-crank lever, which is fulcrumed at its angleM12 on a fixed support H111 of the bed-plate A and so that its upper armM111 lies across the vertical plane of movement of the handle-lever Mand its lower arm M11, having a slotted guide M2O for the passage of thedriving-belt, (not shown,) is at one side of the fixed and loosepulley-wheels B B2 of the driving-shaft.

The crank-lever M1G M1T and the slotted guide M211 constitute a Shipperto ship the driving-belt from the loose to the fixed pulley, and viceversa.

Forcing the handle-lever M downward to place the burnisher intooperative position on the edge of the heel of the jacked boot or shoeand to engage it with the catch-arm MT therefor,all as deseribed,bringsthatleverin to abutment against the upper edge of the upper arm of thecrank-lever and swings the cranklever on its fulcrnm in a direction tomove the driving-belt engaged with, as stated, from off the loose pulleyonto the fixed pulley, and thereby the machine is put into operation.Freeing the handle-lever and allowing it to move upward by the action ofits spring M5, all as described, releases the crank-lever M111 M11 tothe reaction of a spiral spring M21, at one end secured to the lower armM1T of the crank-lever and at the other end to the fixed support M12,whereby the crank-lever is moved in a direct-ion carrying thedriving-belt from off the fixed pulley onto the loose pulley securing astopping of the running of the inachine.

F is a vertical pulley-wheel held on and located between the oppositeend bearings of the burnisher-shaft D2, which is thereby or otherwisesuitably confined against lengthwise movement through its bearings D3.F2 F2 are two similar pulley-wheels arranged side by side and eachcarrying, respectively', a similar and smaller pulley-wheel F1 F5. Thesepulley-wheels are severally arranged to turn in pairs on the rod D6; buteach pair F2 F1 and F3 F5 turns independently and separately from theother pair and all confined against endwise movement on said rod by thefork ends D5 of the burnisher-carrying frame D4 D11, or otherwisesuitably. Each smaller pulley-wheel F4 F5 of the two pairs ofpulley-wheels isconnected by a belt, (not showin) so as to be driven inopposite directions, and the larger pulley-wheels F2 F3 have a belt F,Fig. 3, to connect them, either one or the other, according as the beltis placed on one or the other, with the pulley-wheel F of theburnisher-shaft D2, and thereby to rotate the burnisher in one directionwhen the belt F is on the pulley-wheel F2 and in the other and oppositedirection when said belt is on the other pulley-wheel F2, and the beltis automatically shifted from one pulleywheel F2 to the other F11, andvice versa, as will hereinafter appeal'.

The rod D11, having the burnisher-carrying frame D1 D11 held on it, asexplained, extends from its said supports A5 toward the left of the bed,and its outer end portion D`7 is screwthreaded and receives ascrew-threaded and milled collar G, adjustable lengthwise on said rod.This collar G has a peripheral groove Gr1 at opposite horizontaldiametrical points engaged by the upper fork-shaped ends of a verticallever-arm G4, hung on a fixed horizontal fulcrum-pin A1 of an uprightA111 and carrying a vertical bevel gear-wheel G11. The bevel gear-wheelG11 engages a larger vertical bevel gear-Wheel H, integral with orattached to and turning as one with a vertical ratchet-wheel J2 on ahorizontal shaft H2, su pported and turning at its opposite end portionsin suitable bearings of the post M12 and the upward extension of thebearing-block A211, hereinbefore referred to, of the bed A.

J 1 is a gravity-pawl located at the upper side and by its toe engagingthe teeth of the ratchet-wheel J 8 and by its heel fulcrurned on theupper end of a vertical arm J, hung and swinging on and projectingdownward below the shaft lf2 and at its lower end portion presenting aflat and vertical face J 1, that is on the same side of it as theengagement of the pawl JT with the ratchet-wheel J2.

J1" is a spiral spring at one end4 hung on Vthe upper end portion of thepawl-carrying arln Jj and at the other end on the upright A11), beforereferred to, of the bed. By a swing of the arm J1 in one direction andthe then engagement of the pawl with the ratchetwheel J8 theratchet-wheel .T11 and its companion bevel gear-wheel ll are turned in acorresponding direction, and on a swing of the arm J11 in the oppositedirection the pawl moves backward over the ratchet-wheel without effectthereon to turn it. The swing of the arm JG to turn the ratchet-wheel,as described, is against the tension and its swing in the oppositedirection is by the reactionof the spring J1".

J11 is an arm fixed on the shaft H2 and having a side friction-rollerprojection J 12 at its outer and lower end for abutment against the fiatface J 1 of' the l pawl-carrying arm J 1, and also that by rotating theshaft H2 in the proper direction to place the projection J 12 of its armJ11 in abutment with the fiat face J1 of said arm .l 11 theratchet-WheelJ 8 and its companion bevel gear-wheel H are turned, as

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above explained, and thereby the bevel gearwheel G14, in mesh with saidgear-wheel H and its shaft G1, are also turned, causing, through thecrank connection of fork-shaped lever G1 with said shaft G7 and groovedcollar G of rod D6, a lengthwise movement of said rod D'i forward andbackward through the bearings of its support., and also of the arm orframerDt D11 and of the burnisher, across the edge and from thetreading-face of the heel toward the upper of the boot or shoe, and viceversa. l

The above-d escribed movement of the shaft H2 is a rocking one, and themovement described of the ratchet-wheel J S and its companion bevelgear-wheel H and the bevel gearwheel G11 and its shaft G7 are severallyan intermittent rotary one, but always in one and the same direction.

The rocking movement of the shaft H2, as above stated, is secured fromthe connection of the crank-arm H10 of the shaft through the pitman-rodH'1 with the vertical arm B9 for vibrating the edge of the heel of thejacked boot or shoe under and in contact with the burnisher, and saidarm B9 is vibrated by the rotation of the gear-wheel B1 in connectionwith it by pitman-rod BS.

O is a collar fixed on the end portion of the shaft H2 opposite to thathaving the crankarm H10, and OO3 are two (more or less) radial arms heldon and projecting in opposite directions from the collar O and having aEach radial arm O2 O3 carries an adjustable, but otherwise stationary,abutment-block 01,'projecting toward each other and within the V-opening of the arms. The abutment-blocks O1 are in a common verticalplane, and that of an abutment-block O5 for both of them, and which isheld on the lower end portion of a vertical rod O, preferably adjustably fixed in one end of a horizontal lever-arm O1, that is fulcrumedon and lies across the under side of the part D4 of theburnisher-carrying frame D1 D11, and has a horizontal segmental gear O8in mesh with a horizontal segmental gear O9 of a vertical shaft O10,turning and suit-ably confined in bearings of and also proj ected upwardand downward from the part D4 of said frame D1 D11, and at each of itsopposite end portions provided with an arm O11, each of which has aneye-guide O12, which are otherwise arranged to engage the upper andlower lengths of the driving-belt F11, connecting loose pulley-wheels F2F3 of the rod or shaft D, reciprocated as before described, with thepulley-wheel F of the burnisher D.

' By the rock of the shaft H2 as described, said abutment-blocks 02 O3,held on the shaft, as explained, are brought, the one in the onedirection of the rock of the shaft and the other in the other directionof the rock of the shaft into bearing and action on the abutmentblockO5, making part of the mechanism engaged with the driving-belt FG, asdescribed,

and thereby through the operation of said Vmechanism the belt is shiftedfrom one to the its heel to the headed end C3 of the shaft,-as

explained, on which by depressing the handle-lever M theburnisher D isbrought to bear and held at a hearing on the exposed edge of the jackedheel, and the driving-beltis shipped onto the fixed driving-pulley wheelB2 of the driving-shaft, thus putting the machine into and continuing itin operation until by the rotation of the ratchet-wheel J 11, the pinM2'2 thereof bein brought to a bearing on the vertical arm M11,connected to the catch-lever M" MS, holding the handle-lever M in itsdepressed position, said catch is released from said lever, on which andby the upward movement of said lever the driving-belt is shipped fromthe fixed driving-pulley to the loose pulley of the shaft, which securesa stop of the running of the machine, as also alifting of the burnisherfrom the heel edge it had been burnishing, freeing the boot or shoe forremoval from the machine by releasing the hold of the jack thereon, asexplained, and placing the machine in readiness for another boot or shoeto be inserted and jacked or secured and set into motion, all as abovedescribed.

Vith the machine in operation, as eX- plained, the jacked boot or shoeis vibrated forward and backward with its heel edge in contact with theburnisher, which at the same time is rotated in one and then in anopposite direction, is moved across the edge of the heel from thetreading-face thereof to the upper of the boot or shoe, and vice versa,and, further, is exerting an elastic or yielding pressure on and isadjusting itself inward to and outward from and otherwise, owing to thetwo-part construction of its carryingframe D'1 D11, andswivel-connection of said parts to the varying curves and outlines ofthe heel edge. The movement of the burnisher over and across the edge ofthe heel from the treading-face ot' the heel to the upper and the changein the direction of rotation of the bu rnisher and the stopping of therunning of the machine are severally and all primarily secured bytherock of a single shaft H2, which of itself is adapted and carriesmechanism in part fixed to and in another part turning on it and allotherwise in combination with mechanisms interposed between the partscarried by and the parts turning on it, and the devices to be operatedthereby as to secure the said several operations specied.

For the better illustration and description IOO of this invention, allas above, itwas thought advisable to illustrate and describe ma ny partsin no manner belonging to the j ircseiit invention, but to that formingthe snbjectmatter ot' the application referred to, and all such partsai'e hereby.separately and severally disclaimed, except in so far asthey are in their combinations with the new elements of the machine ofthisinvention distinct silliject-matters of invention, all as fullyappears in the several clauses of claims hereof.

Having thus described my in vei'ition,wliat l .claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, 1S-

l. In a. machine for burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes, incombination, a shaft suitably supported and adapted to bereciprocatingly rotated and at one end to secure the rest of a boot orshoe at its inner heel portion, the combination of a jack composed of atoggle-lever jointed by one ol. its arms to said shaft and having thejoint of its arms opposite to said end rest of said shaft for the heel,a rest held and swiveled on it and presenting a face toward thelieel-face of said shaft, and a spring held on said shaft and arrangedto press against and on the outer side of and against the joint of saidtoggle-lever, a burnislier, and means to operate said burnisher and tomove it across the edge and from the treading-face to the sole face ofthe heel held between the heel-rests of said jack and saidreciproeatingly-rotated shaft carrying said jack, all substantiallydescribed, for t-lie purpose specified.

2. In a machine for burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes, incombination, a shaft suitably supported and adapted to bercciprocatingly rotated and at one end to secure the rest of a boot orshoe at. its inner heel portion, the combination of a jack composed of atoggle-lever jointed by one of its arms to said shaft and having thejoint ot its arms opposite to said end rest of said shaft for the heel,a rest held and swiveled on it and picsenting a face toward theheel-face of said shaft, a sprin g held on said shaft and arranged topress against and on the outer side of and against the joint of saidtoggle-lever, and a handle to the outerend of the arm of thetoggle-lever opposite to that arm jointed to said shaft and adaptedotherwise to be swungT toward and outward from said shaft into line andbutted against the end of the arm to which it is jointed, a burnisher,and means to operate said buriiislier and to move it across the edge andfrom the treading-face to the sole-face of the heel held between theheelrests of said jack and said reciprocatinglyrotated shaft carryingsaid jack, all substantially as described, for the purposes speci fied.

3. Iii a inachinejor burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes,the combination, with the franie or arin D4 D, which is n'iade in twoparts connected together' by a swiveljoint D12 and has its part D4 atits outer end suspended for the frame to be moved laterally andhorizontally and to swing|` vertically, and its part D at its outer endprovided with the buriiisher,ot` a springapplied tothe parl; D of saidframe and otherwise adapted to exert yielding pi'essurc thereon in itsswivel movement, and au abutment M, held on the part D and adapted forcontactl with the part D, substantially as described, for the purposesspecified.

Ji. In a machine for burnisliing the edges of heels ot' boots or shoes,substantially as described, a horizontal rocker-shaft Il?, havingsuitable bearings, means to rock said shaft, a ratchet-wheel J8 and agear'wheel ll', held thereon and adapted to rotate as one, a verticalarm J", fulcrumcd and to swing on said shaft and at its upper end havinga pawl .l to en gage the rateliet-wheel, and thereby to rotate it andits said gear-wheel in one direction of the swing of the vertical armand in the other direction thereof to pass freely over the ratchet, aradial arm held on and in one direction only of the rock of said shaftto work on said pawl-carrying arm, and a spring at one end held on saidarin and at the other on a fixed support, in combination withmeehaiiisin connected with the burnisher of the machine and with and tobe operated by the rotation of said gear-wheel Il, whereby theburnislier is made to travel to and fro over the edge and freni thetreading-face of the heel to the upper, and vice versa, substantially asdescribed, for the purpose specified.

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5. In a machine for burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes, incombination, appliances for holding the boot or shoe with the edge ofits heel exposed, means for reciprocatingly rotating said boot or shoeholding appliances, a burnisher, means for rotating said burnislier,consisting of a pulley-wheel held on said burnislier and togetherturning in suitable bearings, two loose pulley-wheels held and turningand located side by side on a common shaft and separately adapted to bedriven, and a belt connecting said loose pul ley-wheels and saidburnisher pulley-wlieel, a horizontal rocker-shaft H2, having suitablebearings, means to rock said shaft H2, arms O2 O3, held on and radiallyprojected from said shaft H2 and both in a common vertical plane andeach at its outer end having an abutment-block O4, an abutment-block O5,havin g an abutmen t-face on its opposite sides and in the verticalplane of the abutmentblocks 'O4 of said shaft 112 and adapted to swingto and fro on a suitable support, a beltshipper device iii suitableconnection with said driving-belt for the burnislier and adapted torotate on a suitable support, and means connecting said belt-shipper andsaid swinging abutment-block and adapted to rotate the former from theswing of the latter, substa1itially as described, for the purposesspecified.

6. In a machine for burnishing the edges ot heels of boots or slices,substantially as described, a horizontal rockershaft H2, turning insuitable bearings, a pin M22, eccentric- IIO ally held on said shaft, alever-catch M MS, arranged to be rocked on a suitable support in onedirection by said pin and against and in the opposite direction with aspring M12,

a vertical rod M15, carried by said lever and 5 applied to saidcatch,and a lever M, adapted adapted at its opposite ends to act as astop to the up-and-down swing of said frame, substantially as described,for the purpose speciied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto setl my hand in the presence of twosubscribing and arranged for said lever-catch MTMS to be engaged anddisengaged from it, in combination With an arm or frame D4 D, at one endWitnesses. swinging on a suitable horizontal support and VINSLOV F.SAMPSON. io at its other end carrying the burnisher, a ver- Witnesses:

tical spring M5, at one end hung on said car- ALBERT W. BROWN, rier andat the other end on said lever, and

FRANCES M. BROWN.

